Episode 249 | Simon Freeman and Mario Fraioli on Like the Wind U.S., Fresh Starts, and Cultural Differences in Running
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
I recently sat down with my good friend and frequent podcast guest Simon Freeman, the co-founder and publisher of my favorite running magazine, Like The Wind, for our first quarterly conversation of 2026, which you can listen to wherever you get the morning shakeout podcast. An excerpt of this exchange can be found in Issue #48 of LtW, which is out now. (You can buy a copy or subscribe here.) In this episode, we discuss the launch of the U.S. edition of LtW U.S., fresh starts, various cultural differences in running, and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Morning Shakeout podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | I love to run, period. |
| 0:07.2 | You can always run faster. |
| 0:09.2 | Forever, you're going to feel something. |
| 0:12.1 | You're going to run into roadblocks, but that's also going to teach you how to handle things in life. |
| 0:17.3 | I don't think we want to be like rocks, but we're not affected by anything. |
| 0:20.9 | It's not maybe a physical thing, but it's a mental thing. |
| 0:24.1 | There's like two voices in the album and beta. |
| 0:27.3 | All I was really trying to do was just keep moving forward. |
| 0:32.6 | Every single runner knows what that means. |
| 0:36.1 | My life has a purpose, and maybe it's not what I thought it was going to be, but... |
| 0:40.3 | There were times when I didn't think I would be able to come back. |
| 0:44.5 | There's a lot of people that had different gifts, and they don't use it. |
| 0:48.8 | I think if we all use our gifts, we could do something really special, not for ourselves, |
| 0:53.2 | but our family. If we're really good, we could do something really special, not for ourselves, but our family. If we're really good, |
| 0:55.9 | we could do something for our community wherever we live. |
| 1:02.4 | And we are back with a new episode of the Morning Shakeout podcast. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm your host, Mario Fraule, here to set this one up with me. |
| 1:16.7 | As always is my right-hand man, Chris Douglas. |
| 1:24.5 | And this is the first of four quarterly conversations this year with my friend, |
| 1:29.3 | the co-founder and publisher of my favorite running magazine, Like the Wind, |
| 1:36.4 | Simon Freeman. And we chat about a topic of his choosing. So, Chris, what did you think of Simon and I's conversation for this one? I mean, it's great. Again, it's, uh, I love these |
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